The following comments of writsrs, gathered in miscellaneous 

 reading, seem fittingly to express our sentiments at different times 

 while we were compiling the present volume. Now that our opus is 

 completed, we may be forgiven for recording them: 



B. D. 



"Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and 

 thy billows are gone over me." 



4:2nd Psalm. 



Tetzel the Bohemian, gazing at the sea at Cape Finisterre, remarked, — as if 

 he had our bibliography in his mind's eye — "The end of it no one knoweth, save 

 God alone!" 



The Bohemian Ulysses (1477) ; 

 Mas. Henby Cust, Gentleman 

 Errant, 1907, p. 87. 



"I truly beUeve that in the sea there is abundance of infinitely admirable things, 

 whereof God alone hath knowledge." 



Laurent Vital in Voyage de 

 Charles Quint, 1518. 



"But to describe the [fishes, the] subtleties, the many strange devices and 

 order in the same, I do lack wit in my gross old head and cunning in my bowels to 

 declare the wonderful and curious imaginations in the same invented and devised." 



Cavendish's Wolsey, 1556 

 (Routledge ed. 1885, p. 106). 



"A painful work it is I'll assure you, and more than difficult, wherein that 

 toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh so no man beheveth, but he that hath 

 made the triall." . 



Anthony 1 Wood m the Preface 

 to his History of Oxford. 



"Such an enterprise is thankless for the one who charges himself with it; but it 

 can be received with some favor by those naturalists whose researches are facili- 

 tated by it." 



Note by Hippolyte Cloqtjet 

 appended to his Fish Bibliogra- 

 phy, 1821, 



"No extended record of facts grows too old to be useful provided only that we 

 have a ready and sure way of getting at the particular fact or facts we are in search 

 of. And this leads me to speak of what I conceive to be one of the principal tasks 

 to be performed by the present and the coming generation of scholars, not only 

 in the medical, but in every department of knowledge. I mean the formation of 

 izidsxss " ' 



Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



"The history of a science is the palladium of its freedom; it prevents it from 

 being tyrannized over by narrow bigoted viewpoints." 



Motto which appeared with a 

 lithographed portrait of Ludwig 

 Choulant in 1842. 



